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Same here, I have a 7260 card sitting here, installed it and got the "not approved message", my BIOS is 1.07, I wouldn't mind finding one of the cards listed in the maintenance manual but I haven't had any luck finding anyone that has them.

If a person wanted to find an approved wifi card where can we find them? I spoke with Lenovo today and they said that the 2260 "which mine came with" is the only one they show for my particular serial number and cannot send out a different or better card. He did recommend trying to find a third party vendor that would have the approved cards that are listed in the Hardware Maintenance Manual. So far no luck finding any of the FRU #s listed in it.

I installed Win 8.1 on a 128gb MyDigitalSSD using Acronis True Image 2014 to clone the drive over. It went really smooth without a problem and the system boots lightning fast. I followed these instructions for the y510p exactly and it worked the first time. Directions (Lenovo Y510P (Win 8.1), using Acronis): 1) Power down laptop. Open laptop case. Install new MyDigitalSSD in the NGFF M.2 slot. 2) Power-on Windows. Use Disk Management tool to format new MyDigitalSSD in "GPT format" 3) Download & install Acronis True Image. Use it to create a bootable USB flash-drive. Remove USB flash-drive. Turn off computer. 4) Start system BIOS. Change boot schema from "UEFI" to "Legacy." Ensure that booting from USB is enabled. If you don't find the option for booting from USB in the menu, restart the computer, enter BIOS again, and look for the setting--there are some options that only reappear after you've restarted the BIOS! Once booting to USB is enabled, turn off the system. 5) Remove HHD from laptop, and attach it to the external adapter. DO NOT ATTACH HDD TO LAPTOP QUITE YET. 6) Attach bootable USB stick, and reboot the system. The Arconis OS/Rescue system should start. 7) Now attach the HHD via the USB to SATA Adapter 8) Run the Clone utility, choosing the HHD as the "source" drive and the new MyDigitalSSD as the "Target" drive. 9) After the clone procedure is complete, turn off computer and remove bootable USB flash drive as well as USB connecting the old HDD. 10) Restart the system. At this point, it should boot directly from the new MyDigitalSSD...and it should boot fairly quickly. 11) Once you confirm that the SSD is booting correctly, and WIN 8.1 is up and running, you can use Acronis to format the old HDD (The Win 8.1 Disk Management Tool wouldn't let me delete the UEFI/GPT partitions on the HDD) via the external connection. Then use Disk Management to reformat the drive (NFTS). 12) Turn off the computer. Re-install the HDD. Restart the system to make sure everything is running as intended (booting from SSD, HDD shows up). 13) Enter into BIOS and re-enable all of the UEFI settings (for security). Recheck the boot again. If all runs well, power down again. 14) Reassemble laptop

I know everyone says not to update to 3.05 but does anyone know what the changes are going from 1.07? Thx.

Hey everyone, new here, and just picked up a Y410P open box on Amazon and will be installing the 7260 wifi card and a M.2 128gb SATA as the main drive.

Hey everyone, I picked up a open box Y410P off of Amazon and it has the 1.07 Bios, I've already ordered the 7260 card and I'll be installing that soon. One thing I need to ask and haven't seen an answer is can the 1.07 bios be upgraded to the 1.10 through a downloadable file, Lenovo states there isn't one needed on their site. TIA